When did the world end?

Still wonderin' said:

The end of jblogging began in summer '05, when DB went away on vacation and handed the keys to his blog to Amshi....he made some rude comment invoking nazis and DB has to come home early and delete the comments.

Oy! Censorship!

Somehow the whole episode left a bad taste in everyone's mouth and thus, the beginning of the end of innocence.

Wah!

Or was it the FIRST time MoC retired...

Or, was it when Slifkin became a non-issue....

Or was it when OM went political...

Or, was it when Amshi abandoned his once brilliant blog....

Or was it when mis-nagid closed his site and some jerk snatched up the name (whatsisname??)....

Or was it when 10,000 idiots descended on The Unorthodox Jew's blog spouting nonsense and bile, and then he was outed by a bunch of low-life thugs purporting to be acting l'sheim shamayim...

Or was it when Airtimedaily stopped writing tittilating stories and got a job and them moved to Israel...

Or was it when Godol Hador started to get self-conscious and stopped writing in particularly insightful yet deliciously blunt manner and then closed his blog...

Or was it when blogging just became so 2005 and all the fun people went on to do....nahhhhhh.

Do not say, "Why is it that the former days were better than these?" For it is not wisdom that causes you to ask about this. --Ecc 7:10